I enjoyed the article. It is accurate and if anything it does not portray the harsh conditions present in Detroit strongly enough.
I recently worked in the VA MEd Center for a vendor there before the holidays and some of the things I saw both at the MEd Center and in the city in general were worse than depressing. Sure it may be true that the population is mainly African American and most of the elites have moved away. But it is not because of the racial demographic shift that the city has plunged into the desperate state that it is in. The articloe touches upon the cause of this. The unequal distribution of wealth and power in our society. Those with the means to create opportunity left nad among those who remain there are too few with the discretionary income to support new enterprises.
I am white, I realize that it is hard to hear that whites have historically used the communities of other groups as they saw fit to amass their wealth and prestige and then abandoned them. Bu tit is none the less true. I am not proud to be white and almost daily I find fewer reasons to be proud of my race and for that matter this country.
We will all be lining up in the alley waiting for the crumbs thrown casually in our direction soon.
As for the comments dengrating anothers religious beliefs I am not surprised but I apologize on behalf of the heathens who inhabit this continent they have not evolved.
I enjoyed the article. It is accurate and if anything it does not portray the harsh conditions present in Detroit strongly enough.
I recently worked in the VA MEd Center for a vendor there before the holidays and some of the things I saw both at the MEd Center and in the city in general were worse than depressing. Sure it may be true that the population is mainly African American and most of the elites have moved away. But it is not because of the racial demographic shift that the city has plunged into the desperate state that it is in. The articloe touches upon the cause of this. The unequal distribution of wealth and power in our society. Those with the means to create opportunity left nad among those who remain there are too few with the discretionary income to support new enterprises.
I am white, I realize that it is hard to hear that whites have historically used the communities of other groups as they saw fit to amass their wealth and prestige and then abandoned them. Bu tit is none the less true. I am not proud to be white and almost daily I find fewer reasons to be proud of my race and for that matter this country.
We will all be lining up in the alley waiting for the crumbs thrown casually in our direction soon.
As for the comments dengrating anothers religious beliefs I am not surprised but I apologize on behalf of the heathens who inhabit this continent they have not evolved.